On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 03:57:13PM -0500, Matt Simmons wrote: > You know we're in deep when "villainy" is considered an upgrade.
where do you people live? I personally noticed a huge upgrade in what I perceived my own social standing to be when I moved to silicon valley from the central valley. Honestly, I don't know how much of that is my own "filter bubble" and me getting better at choosing my friends, and how much of that is the location, but it seems to me that this sort of thing would vary a lot from place to place. (And yeah, as far as I can tell, at least here? Nerds are seen as pretty cool.) We don't make doctor money, but eh, I had north of 10 years of industry experience by the time I'd have been able to start practicing, if I had gone to med school, and our unemployment numbers make lawyers cry. Personally, I don't have a problem with doctors earning more than we do; I mean, Finance, yeah; the fact that people make what they do in finance, I think, is a pretty huge societal problem, but I think that problem is more that people in finance make too much (I mean, compared to the value they create; as far as I can tell, they are allowed to create risk rather than value, and they get paid like they are creating value when the bets pay out without being similarly penalized when the bets go south. Personally, I think the whole system is in trouble due to the rise of passive investing, but that's so far off topic and so far outside of anything that I actually know anything about that I should probably shut up.) _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
